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Igbo group unveils political movement to advance South-East agenda

The Igbo National Council, INC, has unveiled a political movement that will advocate for effective political participation of the South-East region towards occupying vital positions in the nation’s political space. Unveiling the members of the movement known as State Political Committee, SPC, in Owerri, Imo State, the Chairman of the Council, Mazi Nnamdi Aguguo, said
Igbo group unveils political movement to advance South-East agenda

The Igbo National Council, INC, has unveiled a political movement that will advocate for effective political participation of the South-East region towards occupying vital positions in the nation’s political space.

Unveiling the members of the movement known as State Political Committee, SPC, in Owerri, Imo State, the Chairman of the Council, Mazi Nnamdi Aguguo, said that the committee is charged with the responsibility of promoting the activities of members of INC in political and electoral contest in the forthcoming 2027 general elections.

He observed that Igbo race constitutes over 32.8 percent of Nigeria’s population but regretted that the South-East is unable to convert the numerical strength to political advantage.

Aguguo remarked that the people of the region are virtually living in every community, town and state within the federation without effective political and economic link ups.

He hinted that INC observed that the uncoordinated synergies among the people of the region is the major setback in their bid to get a shot at the nation’s number one seat hence the formation of the movement.

Aguguo alleged that there is an orchestrated conspiracy and psychological warfare against the Igbo race, regretting that some political elites from the region have fallen victim to the conspiracy, hence the need for urgent political reorientation and sensitization before the next general elections.

“INC is very worried that the majority of the Igbo race have fallen victim to the conspiracy theory that has long been orchestrated and targeted against the Igbo in Nigeria.

“This coordinated psychological warfare waged against the Igbo race has caused untold damage to the political psych of larger population of the Igbo nation,” he further said.

The INC chairman informed that the committee which is being led by Chief Justice Ohaegbu has numerous roles to play in bringing the Igbo race together.

The committee, according to him, is comprised of five people that will serve within a period of three years.

He further disclosed that the committee will draft and propose guidelines for political participation of INC as an organization in the 2027 general elections also provide criteria for adoption of candidates the Council will support for elective positions.

Aguguo added that the members of the committee will also serve as think tank on political matters and help to coordinate some of the political activities of the Council, as maybe assigned to them.

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Ex-Customs Comptroller-General, Mustapha is dead

Former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ahmed Aliyu Mustapha, is dead. Mustapha served as Comptroller-General from 1999 to 2003. He retired from the Service in December 2003, after more than three decades of active duty. His death was confirmed on Thursday by the Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, in a statement shared on
Ex-Customs Comptroller-General, Mustapha is dead

Former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ahmed Aliyu Mustapha, is dead.

Mustapha served as Comptroller-General from 1999 to 2003.

He retired from the Service in December 2003, after more than three decades of active duty.

His death was confirmed on Thursday by the Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, in a statement shared on his social media pages.

“Deeply saddened by the passing of Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu Musdafa, former CG of Customs. A man of service, dignity & duty whose legacy will live on. My prayers are with Lamido Adamawa, the Musdafa royal family & all who mourn him. May Allah grant him Aljannah Firdaus,” Fintiri wrote.

Mustapha, an elder brother to the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Dr. Muhammadu Barkindo Aliyu Mustapha, also held the traditional title of Sardauna Adamawa.

He joined the NCS as a young cadet and steadily rose through the ranks before his appointment as Comptroller-General in 1999, at the dawn of the Fourth Republic.

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Peter Obi: Don’t expect a messiah in 2027 – Dele Farotimi warn Nigerians

Human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, on Thursday said Nigerians should not expect a messiah that would save the country in 2027. Farotimi said Nigerians expecting a messiah as President in 2027 should have their brains examined. He was reacting to an X user @herdeys1 who wondered if the former Anambra State governor is a messiah.
Peter Obi: Don’t expect a messiah in 2027 – Dele Farotimi warn Nigerians

Human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, on Thursday said Nigerians should not expect a messiah that would save the country in 2027.

Farotimi said Nigerians expecting a messiah as President in 2027 should have their brains examined.

He was reacting to an X user
@herdeys1 who wondered if the former Anambra State governor is a messiah.

The user had posed: “Is Peter Obi the messiah we are expecting?”

Responding, Farotimi wrote: “I expect no messiah to save Nigeria and the victims of Nigeria, and anyone expecting a messiah should have their brains examined.

“Your messiah resides in your mirror, nobody’s coming to save us, it is up to us to save ourselves.”

Obi, who came third during the 2023 presidential election, recently declared that he would run again in 2027.

There are speculations that he is in talks with the Peoples Democratic Party over a possible return, as well as the African Democratic Congress, ADC.

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Empower farmers to tackle food crisis – Showunmi tells Tinubu

To address the nation’s food insecurity, Otunba Segun Showunmi, convener of The Alternative, a pan-Nigeria movement, has urged President Bola Tinubu to empower more farmers and move them from subsistence to mechanized farming. Showunmi asserted that when grassroot farmers are empowered with tractors, fertilizers and seedlings, the impact would be felt and there would be
Empower farmers to tackle food crisis – Showunmi tells Tinubu

To address the nation’s food insecurity, Otunba Segun Showunmi, convener of The Alternative, a pan-Nigeria movement, has urged President Bola Tinubu to empower more farmers and move them from subsistence to mechanized farming.

Showunmi asserted that when grassroot farmers are empowered with tractors, fertilizers and seedlings, the impact would be felt and there would be an increase in food production.

In addition to calling for greater farmer empowerment, he praised the President’s recent ban on the export of raw shea nuts, emphasising that the action will encourage local processing and add value within the nation rather than fattening the pockets of those outside.

The PDP chieftain also called on Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, to see to the empowerment of true and responsible farmers to enable the state experience rise in food production.

Showunmi made the call on Wednesday in Abeokuta, during an advocacy meeting with farmers under the aegis of Agbe Gbe Lu Agro Network Limited, while urging them to encouraging their community members to register for the upcoming election.

Showunmi, who was represented by the Southwest Chairman of the Movement, Olusola Salau, described the farmers as a reliable group, expressing confidence that if empowered, there would be an increase of food production in the state.

He said, “They are not asking the government for lands they have theirs already. All they are asking is to end this primitive farming, that the government of Dapo Abiodun and President Bola Tinubu should key into their plight and give them tractors so that increase of food can be experienced in Ogun State.

“This people are not politicians, they are reliable when it comes to vote changes, although Otunba Showunmi is in PDP, he’s a brother to Prince Dapo Abiodun and Dapo Abiodun have gone to Brazil and knows the importance of farmers, so we are calling on the governor to see this group as an important one that should be empowered. Give them equipments to do their work so there would be increase in food in Ogun State.”

Speaking earlier, the Baale Agbe, Fohunola Ajani, revealed that politicians are the only beneficiaries of government empowerment, maintaining that after receiving farming equipment such as tractors among others, they (politicians) sell them off leaving real farmers to cultivate with hoes and cutlasses.

Meanwhile, one of the farmers, a septuagenarian identified as Ojeyinka Bamidele, bemoaned the government’s emphasis on training women and youths while ignoring the elderly, who are also farmers.

According to Bamidele, many young people alter their career paths after obtaining these funds, trainings, and even equipment, thus urging the government to restructure its selection and grant distribution criteria.

He said, “When they want to do training, they forget that those of us who are old are in the farm. They do training for youth and women, I wouldn’t say they should not continue to train the youth, but they should not forget those of us that are working, because many youth after receiving training, money and materials go away, but we are still on the farm.

“When they want to give us loans or whatever, it’s those in the office that usually collect it. For those of us working in the farm the condition they will give to us does not allow us to take the loan, so we want them to make sure that they do it easy for us to take loan.”

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Police, NSCDC clash in Ebonyi community leaves officer dead, others injured

A violent clash between operatives of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Amaeze community, Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, has left one policeman dead and several others injured. Confirming the incident on Thursday, the Chairman of Ivo LGA, Emmanuel Ajah, said he was briefed by
Police, NSCDC clash in Ebonyi community leaves officer dead, others injured

A violent clash between operatives of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Amaeze community, Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, has left one policeman dead and several others injured.

Confirming the incident on Thursday, the Chairman of Ivo LGA, Emmanuel Ajah, said he was briefed by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of Ivo Division about the bloody confrontation between the two sister security agencies.

“I was informed by the DPO that there was a clash involving the police and civil defence officers in Amaeze community, and unfortunately, one police officer lost his life in the process,” Ajah stated.

Eyewitnesses from Amaeze community, who pleaded anonymity, alleged that the deceased policeman, identified as Shedrack, may have been mistakenly shot by his colleagues.

According to the source, trouble erupted when three Toyota Hilux vans conveying about 30 policemen reportedly double crossed and opened fire on an NSCDC van conveying mining equipment to a site in Amaeze.

“In the course of the fracas, Shedrack allegedly attempted to disarm a civil defence officer but when other policemen tried to shoot at the NSCDC operative, they mistakenly hit their colleague, who died on the spot, while some others sustained gunshot injuries,” the source said.

The dead police officer has been deposited in the morgue, while those injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

The police and NSCDC authorities in Ebonyi are yet to issue official statements on the incident as at press time.

Efforts to get the reaction of the Ebonyi State Police Command were not successful as the Public Relations Officer, SP Joshua Ukandu, could not be reached for comments.

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Focus on real issues, stop passing nonsensical laws – Mahdi Shehu tells National Assembly 

Social critic and public affairs analyst, Mahdi Shehu, has called on the National Assembly to stop making what he described as nonsensical laws and focus on addressing the real problems facing Nigerians. Shehu, in a post on X on Thursday, argued that lawmakers have taken advantage of the docility of Nigerians to churn out laws
Focus on real issues, stop passing nonsensical laws – Mahdi Shehu tells National Assembly 

Social critic and public affairs analyst, Mahdi Shehu, has called on the National Assembly to stop making what he described as nonsensical laws and focus on addressing the real problems facing Nigerians.

Shehu, in a post on X on Thursday, argued that lawmakers have taken advantage of the docility of Nigerians to churn out laws that do not serve the majority of the people.

“The biggest affliction of democracy on people is that a few good, bad, fraudulent, or even dangerous are given or they snatch the monopoly to make laws for the majority,” he wrote. 

“Consequently, National Assembly members of Nigeria have taken the advantage, latitude and docility of Nigerians to make laws, some of which are sensible, quite many nonsensical and most of them stupid and dangerous.”

He urged the legislature to instead initiate bills that would tackle what he termed visible crimes affecting governance and development in the country. 

Among his proposals were laws that would classify narcotics trade, frequent foreign travels by public officials, budget padding, and frequent loan collections as forms of terrorism.

According to him, “We need a Narcotic Terrorism Act to declare all those selling, peddling and funding narcotic activities as terrorists because of its multidimensional implications.”

He also suggested a Budget Padding Terrorism Act to criminalize officials who inflate budgets, as well as a Frequent Travels Terrorism Act to sanction public officers who travel abroad at public expense while their states or the country face crises.

Shehu further called for strict laws against public officials who seek medical treatment abroad after contributing to the collapse of local health institutions.

“This country urgently needs laws to save Nigerians from deliberate terrorism acts by public office holders,” he added.

He listed areas like constituency projects, national grid collapse, and absenteeism by lawmakers as issues that should also be criminalized.

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Focus on real issues, stop passing nonsensical laws – Mahdi Shehu tells National Assembly

Social critic and public affairs analyst, Mahdi Shehu, has called on the National Assembly to stop making what he described as nonsensical laws and focus on addressing the real problems facing Nigerians. Shehu, in a post on X on Thursday, argued that lawmakers have taken advantage of the docility of Nigerians to churn out laws
Focus on real issues, stop passing nonsensical laws – Mahdi Shehu tells National Assembly

Social critic and public affairs analyst, Mahdi Shehu, has called on the National Assembly to stop making what he described as nonsensical laws and focus on addressing the real problems facing Nigerians.

Shehu, in a post on X on Thursday, argued that lawmakers have taken advantage of the docility of Nigerians to churn out laws that do not serve the majority of the people.

“The biggest affliction of democracy on people is that a few good, bad, fraudulent, or even dangerous are given or they snatch the monopoly to make laws for the majority,” he wrote.

“Consequently, National Assembly members of Nigeria have taken the advantage, latitude and docility of Nigerians to make laws, some of which are sensible, quite many nonsensical and most of them stupid and dangerous.”

He urged the legislature to instead initiate bills that would tackle what he termed visible crimes affecting governance and development in the country.

Among his proposals were laws that would classify narcotics trade, frequent foreign travels by public officials, budget padding, and frequent loan collections as forms of terrorism.

According to him, “We need a Narcotic Terrorism Act to declare all those selling, peddling and funding narcotic activities as terrorists because of its multidimensional implications.”

He also suggested a Budget Padding Terrorism Act to criminalize officials who inflate budgets, as well as a Frequent Travels Terrorism Act to sanction public officers who travel abroad at public expense while their states or the country face crises.

Shehu further called for strict laws against public officials who seek medical treatment abroad after contributing to the collapse of local health institutions.

“This country urgently needs laws to save Nigerians from deliberate terrorism acts by public office holders,” he added.

He listed areas like constituency projects, national grid collapse, and absenteeism by lawmakers as issues that should also be criminalized.

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Ex-Edo varsity Acting VC dies weeks after handing over to successor

The immediate past Acting Vice Chancellor of Edo State University, Iyahmo, Prof Dawood Egbefo, is dead. Egbefo died about two weeks after handing over to the new Vice Chancellor. DAILY POST reports that the spokesman of the university, Amaechi Kelly Quincy, disclosed this in a post on the institution’s Facebook page. The state government had
Ex-Edo varsity Acting VC dies weeks after handing over to successor

The immediate past Acting Vice Chancellor of Edo State University, Iyahmo, Prof Dawood Egbefo, is dead.

Egbefo died about two weeks after handing over to the new Vice Chancellor.

DAILY POST reports that the spokesman of the university, Amaechi Kelly Quincy, disclosed this in a post on the institution’s Facebook page.

The state government had on August 8, 2025, announced the appointment of a substantive Vice Chancellor, Victor Adetimirin Olawale, for the institution.

Egbefo, who was the Acting Vice Chancellor, formally handed over to Olawale on August 11, 2025.

Egbefo reportedly died on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.

The cause of his death was not disclosed.

The statement described the late Professor Egbefo as a distinguished scholar, an astute administrator and a mentor to many within the academic community.

According to the statement, the late acting Vice Chancellor’s dedication, humility, and commitment to the advancement of education left an indelible mark in the history of the university.

The management of the institution extended its condolences to the deceased’s family, colleagues, friends, and the entire academic community.

Ex-Edo varsity Acting VC dies weeks after handing over to successor